- Now the first time you launch After Effects,…you'll probably see this welcome screen.…I don't want you to panic…because I have a bunch of different things down here…that you may not necessarily have in your welcome screen.…This list in the lower left corner here…will open the most recent project you've had open.…Other than that, I want to kind of draw your attention…to the default settings of this welcome screen.…At the top here, I have settings…that will synchronize my preferences…from my After Effects project to my Creative Cloud account.…

So, any time I go to another computer…and log in with my Creative Cloud account,…the preferences for After Effects…will sync to that new machine.…On the right-hand side here,…I have some shortcuts to do things…like create new compositions or open a new project.…To be honest, I never use these.…I rarely ever use the welcome screen.…Most of the time, I just go ahead and deselect this option…to show the welcome screen at startup…and I go ahead and close the panel…and start working in After Effects.…

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10/28/2015

This training course is designed to get new motion graphics and VFX artists started with the basics of After Effects. Author Ian Robinson introduces the concepts of motion graphics and the Creative Cloud, shows some simple tips for relinking footage and setting up the keyboard to suit your workflow, and then breaks down the six core foundations of After Effects. He also covers compositions, layers, animation, effects, 3D, and rendering at a high level, so that viewers can zero in on what they need to learn next using our After Effects library of training.